11-28-2022, 08:00 PM
[quote='KillerGoose' pid='1285078' dateline='1669660911']
This is just an anecdote, so take it with a grain of salt. I know a guy who is familiar with how they grade. He's an offensive coordinator for a school over in Georgia, so he has some level of football background. His personal takeaway was that it was all a joke and shouldn't be taken very seriously. You are given a spreadsheet and work along with another analyst to watch the film and grade players. You are tasked with trying to figure out what their assignment was and whether or not you think they did it well. If you don't know their assignment, you just give them a zero for a neutral grade. If you and the other analyst are more than 0.5 apart from each other, you bring in a senior analyst to make a final decision for you.
His description was that the analysts are primarily college students and you don't get any training on film analysis beforehand. I'll post some quotes from him so it is available verbatim.
This is correct and honestly it’s not worth using PFF anymore outside of statistical items that is what the NFL teams actually use when they reference every team uses PFF. They used to have more qualified folks doing it but over the years like most large companies they started shoving off the major lifting to low paid under qualified folks.
This is just an anecdote, so take it with a grain of salt. I know a guy who is familiar with how they grade. He's an offensive coordinator for a school over in Georgia, so he has some level of football background. His personal takeaway was that it was all a joke and shouldn't be taken very seriously. You are given a spreadsheet and work along with another analyst to watch the film and grade players. You are tasked with trying to figure out what their assignment was and whether or not you think they did it well. If you don't know their assignment, you just give them a zero for a neutral grade. If you and the other analyst are more than 0.5 apart from each other, you bring in a senior analyst to make a final decision for you.
His description was that the analysts are primarily college students and you don't get any training on film analysis beforehand. I'll post some quotes from him so it is available verbatim.
This is correct and honestly it’s not worth using PFF anymore outside of statistical items that is what the NFL teams actually use when they reference every team uses PFF. They used to have more qualified folks doing it but over the years like most large companies they started shoving off the major lifting to low paid under qualified folks.
